Wow. I just unplugged my original iPod from the HK dock for the first time in about a year. I think I have 4 iPods of various kinds scattered around the house … a Nano, a 20 gig 2nd generation (that’s the one that’s hooked up to my HK stereo), a 40 gig Video,...
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Thanks to an extremely generous brother-in-law, I’m blogging this from my new iPod touch. Far, far, far too cool. Of course, I quickly picked up the $20 extra apps package from Apple, which really makes this useable as a mobile platform … Well, enough for now. I’m super-happy with the Touch, but I’m not...
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Having an iPod Nano can be a lot more work than you bargained for. I got a fatboy Nano for Christmas. It’s great, sleek, beautiful, tiny, and the wretched bleeding thing does not hold all my music. Having never had this problem before (owning both a 20GB 4th generation and a 30GB 5th generation...
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How much did you pay the music industry for the record player you bought 30 years ago? What percentage of your 15-year-old tape deck’s cost went to the music companies? And how much did the RIAA get when you bought your new Bose speakers?A big fat zero, obviously.Which is why I’m so utterly baffled...
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So, Universal wants to invent a new model for music sales: Universal Music Group, the world’s biggest record label, is looking to mobile hardware makers to foot the bill for a free music subscription service for buyers of a certain mobile phone or music player, The Telegraph reported Saturday. Think. What does a model...
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Apple’s scheduled a Steptember 5th special event: “the beat goes on.”It’s obviously about iPods. My guess is that Apple’s now ready to take the next step. More to the point, the marketplace is finally ready for Apple to release the next evolution in iPod: mobile computing.You already see it in iPhone. And we know...
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Why on earth is Apple selling iQuiz? it’s a tiny application that lets you run quizzes on your iPod. McGraw-Hill is using it to deliver their new interactive learning for iPod program. Apple’s charging only 99 cents for it on the iTunes store. But why not give it away for free? Then it could...
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The rumors had been around for some time: PowerSchool was on the auction block. Now it’s official. But why? Why did Apple sell PowerSchool? It appears that the division was not profitable enough for Apple, and there were always rumors of issues around the development of new versions of PowerSchool. But I think there...
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This past Friday I spent some time publishing a course on my iPod. (Find out how you can, too). It’s fairly simple to create a course to run on an iPod, but there’s one problem: installing. Installing the course takes too many steps for the average person … dragging the audio content into iTunes,...
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Friday nights, Friday nights. Friday nights are supposed to be for fun. For long dinners and late movies, and then a little nightcap before going to bed. Except for geeks. I’m only a mini-geek, so I only spent about 3 hours fiddling with technology. But this past week Friday I got my first course...
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